The Wild West: History, Myth & the Making of America, Paperback - Frederick Nolan

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The exciting story of the Welsh immigrants and their descendants who made a disproportionate contribution to the creation and growth of the wealthi...

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Reducere. History as it's supposed to be told: true and thrilling. History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word ...

Reducere. Reproduction of the original: Wild Sports and the Far West by Frederick Gerstaecker

Reducere. From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans In 1869, when the final spik...

Publisher: 1517 MediaAuthor(s): Renee K. HarrisonNumber of pages: 380Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 161 x 239 x 34Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

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Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Frederick KnabIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 572Publication date: 2010Dimensions: ...

When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained a stupendous problem: establishing a workable democratic government in the vast, newly ...

A search for the meaning of the American West, told through extraordinary images by acclaimed photographer Sarah Lee

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Reducere. Did you know that most Western lawmen were criminals themselves?Many of the most well-known lawmen of the American Wild West had multiple criminal ...

Contributor(s): Author: Tom ChaffinIn 1845, seven years after fleeing bondage in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was in his late twenties and already ...

Old West gunfighters will always fascinate a large segment of our population. From the pages of this book (and its 43 stories) spring the grit and ...

Reducere. Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin's trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of th...

The first book that profiles the rapid expansion of the student and campus farm movement.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): Fred...

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Andrew Jackson tells the story of one of our most controversial presidents. Born in the Carolina backwoods, Jackson joined the American Revolutiona...

Jesse James and other infamous outlaws were part of a larger organization, centuries old, that has affected U.S. history from the small, rural stre...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Wild West is infamous for its outrageous stories, cowboys, and gun battles. But the region is also known for its ghost stories, unex...

Reducere. There's a reason why the Wild West is called as such. History will give you some pretty good (but lengthy) explanations. The purpose of this educat...

With fresh appraisals of popular Westerns, this book examines the history of the genre with a focus on definitional aspects of canon, adaptation an...

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Publisher: Harvard University PressAuthor(s): Beth Lew-WilliamsIllustration(s): 6 MapsNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 2...

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Now in paperback, the inspiring story of one of America's greatest presidents The fifth book in the Making of America series, Franklin D. Roosevelt...

" A] fascinating and indispensable book."--Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2018--The Guardian Gold Medal for Contribution to Pu...

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Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of ...

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An exciting, enquiry-based series that helps to encourage teaching and learning and develop student's historical knowledge and skills.

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